"I will help and do my part. We can manage it. Come, Maria, say that you will."
"Your part," said Maria. "What do you suppose your part would come to? What can such a child as you do?"
"Maria, now is the time to show whether you are really one of the Band of workers."
"I am, of course. I joined it."
"That would not make you one of them, if you don't do what they promised to do."
"When did I ever promise to be Aunt Candy's servant girl?" said Maria, fiercely. "I should like to know."
"But 'we are the servants of Christ,'" said Matilda, softly, her eyes glistening through.
"What then?"
"We promised to try to do whatever would honour Him."
"I don't know what all this affair has to do with it," said Maria. "You say we promised;—you didn't?"